Isn’t lynching kind of fascist?
There’s this winsome image:
I haven’t been able to find it on that group’s Facebook, so maybe Facebook has now removed it. But it’s interesting that people who seem to consider themselves to be on the left think that is a fine woke lefty image – a lynched woman with the inscription DEAD TERFs. The word “TERF” is a free pass for men to express loathing and contempt for women and be seen as awesomely progressive for doing so.
Horrible.
Also, that symbol is a bit telling, isn’t it? The
hard phallusheart ferrous. Dead giveaway.No fixed abode = hangs about anyone anywhere? Yes, fascist.
Violent imagerys is fine amongst progressives, provided 1) the target is female and 2) the aggressor is at least *this* woke.
Related, I just read this:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/trans-anti-free-speech-tyranny/
Basically feminists sent a letter asking not to be attacked, and the LGBT Labour National Committee responded by demanding they remove their names from the letter because it “erased the experiences of transgender people.”
I may not be looking at the image correctly so maybe i’m seeing something that isn’t there, but to me this looks like an older, not so pretty woman. Kind of sagging breasts, big nose (if I’m seeing a nose), undefined chin. Are older, unattractive TERFs the worst kind? The most in need of lynching?
Who? Tell me who these people are. You seem to be developing this Thunderf00t-esque habit of of pointing to the most ChantyBinx-style characatures and claiming they’re typical. Who in the flying fuck is calling for transphobic bigots to be lynched? There are no “Trans Activitsts” calling for lynching or anything similar.
I don’t want transphobic shits to be lynched. I also don’t what antisemities to be lynched. I don’t whant Aryan supremacists to be lynched. I don’t want members of the Westboro Baptist Church to be lynched.
Given that you apparently have no evidence this image is representative of trans activism (to but it mildly), and given we obviously have a massive transphobia problem in our society, shouldn’t you be more skeptical? My first thought when presented with an image like is would be that this is transphobic propaganda. It should at least be considered as such until proven otherwise.
Priscilla, that’s what I see, too. And those things below her feet look to me like house slippers, so another image often associated with older women. Because no younger woman would wear house slippers when it’s cold outside? Or because older women wear house slippers all the time, even in the office, the court room, the board room? As for myself (an older woman), I think I only buy houseslippers so the dog can have a chew toy.
And yet, baseball bats are needed to “defend” against the threat of these elderly, slipper-clad fiends.
Silentbob @ 5 –
What do you mean “who”? The name of the group is right at the top of the image. They’re on Twitter and Facebook. Maybe they’re Russian bots or non-Russian trolls, sure, but maybe they’re genuine assholes.
And please note that I did not say they are typical. I said “But it’s interesting that people who seem to consider themselves to be on the left think that is a fine woke lefty image” – meaning, the people who created the image. Admittedly it’s ambiguous; I could have meant people who seem to consider themselves to be on the left in general, but in fact I didn’t. But as for “There are no “Trans Activitsts” calling for lynching or anything similar” – the hell there aren’t. There are way too many trans activists calling for violence against people they call “TERFs.” Maybe it’s easy for you to blow it off because you just don’t see it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
Are you deliberately looking the other way? How else have you not seen the many many claims that assaulting ‘TERFs’ is self defense and thus always justified, and even praiseworthy? Or the baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire shown at an actual exhibition?
That, is kind of the problem I’m having with the left in general nowadays, and why I no longer consider myself leftwing. There is a nasty, harassing contingent which we’re all supposed to pretend doesn’t exist, and when called on it, we’re supposed to either defend them or write them off.
Antifa – we’re supposed to pretend are fine because they’re just after the Nazis, but I’ve gotten into arguments with those utter lunatic assholes where they’ve made it very clear that they consider liberals to be “next”.
And a big chunk of it is “white tears” or “male tears” or whatever – wherein celebrating hurting people is seen as a good thing because they’re oppressors, nevermind that something of basic human empathy is being lost somewhere along the way, nevermind that they can be “oppressors” without having to actually oppress anybody but simply by virtue of their skin colour or gender.
We’re supposed to spend a lot of time debating who the victim is, and ignoring the fact that humans have rights, including the right to not be assaulted, not based upon political tribe but upon being human. There is a dehumanisation that comes with the label “Terf” whereby it seems that anybody judged to be such is suddenly an unperson, fair game for anything up to and including violence.
A few years ago I didn’t get the logic when Ophelia Benson argued that “MAnne Coulter” jokes weren’t good, I thought people were just making harmless fun, but over time the wisdom in her case has become clearer to me – if it is unacceptable, it is unacceptable whoever the target is. Sexism doesn’t suddenly become good because the person targeted by it is awful.
Otherwise you get this.
Sorry, first day of being unemployed, so I’m feeling a bit ranty.
You mean involuntarily unemployed?? If so I’m very sorry to hear it. Also good rant, no need to be sorry.
I resigned. It was something that had been building for a while, with the last straw being this:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-demonic-possession-real-victims-081531844.html
“Medical science remains sceptical. However, a Princeton-and-Yale-educated mainstream psychiatrist believes demonic possession is indeed very real – and claims that the majority of Americans agree with him.”
The website I worked for republished the same article as part of what is planned to, at some point, become its premium package. I mean FFS they were threatening us with disciplinary procedures over typos, and they published that.
The line about medical science not accepting fucking hoodoo should have been a clue, that and the fact that we’re in 2018, not 1018.
Anyway I commented on the story saying it shouldn’t have gone up, got called aside by my editor and told that this was incredibly serious and I’d essentially slapped her boss in the face by posting the comment. I resigned.
Seriously this was a place that moved to one of the dodgiest areas in Johannesburg, an already not terribly safe city. We were just down the road from one of the 12 hottest hijacking hotspots in the country – and they hadn’t provided enough parking. When someone complained, after getting a knife pulled on them no less, HR got told to keep them in line.
This was a few years after they’d strategically restructured to make our union rep redundant.
Oh good god.
Thanks hey, I find if I don’t write about it, this sort of thing festers, so having a chance to talk somewhere about it seriously helps.
I know what you mean!
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